NEW: Jim Acosta Threatening To Quit CNN After Embarrassing Demotion
Published 4 hours ago
on January 23, 2025
By Mark Steffen
Jim Acosta, who led CNN’s resistance against President Donald Trump during his first term, is reportedly set to rage-quit his job after facing a significant demotion that pulled his own show out from underneath his feet.
Acosta was the victim of a serious shake-up by CEO Mark Thompson, who terminated Acosta’s weekday 10 a.m. program “CNN Newsroom” after 17 months on the air. Instead, the CNN veteran will be relegated to the “Siberia” of cable news and given a midnight show, effectively shutting him out of the ratings game and putting his once-vaunted career on ice.
Taking his place will be a new show co-anchored by Pamela Brown, 39, and Wolf Blitzer, the longtime anchor who also lost his standalone show as Thompson makes moves to put his legacy league of extraordinary gentlemen out to pasture.
Rather than accept his new assignment, Acosta may “exit the network, according to people familiar with his thinking,” the Daily Mail reports. Other sources say that the former White House correspondent is “getting hosed” within the network over his “shocking” demotion. One insider admitted Acosta’s “only path forward” at CNN would be to acquiesce and accept the midnight-to-2 a.m. time slot.
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